Re: Child-Maltreatment-Research-L List Guidelines

["Barbara Thomlison" <thomliso@xxxxxxx>]

 I think your list serve members may have an interest in this special CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. Thank you

 

Research on Social Work Practice: A Special Issue on Evidence -Based Practice in Child Welfare

Guest-Edited by Barbara Thomlison, Ph.D.

 Making well-informed decisions based on the best available evidence is critical for improving the outcomes of social work practice with children and families. The use of scientifically credible evidence for improving practice in the systems serving child welfare populations is the emphasis of this special issue of Research on Social Work Practice.   Submissions must describe original empirically-based outcome studies in the field of child welfare, the development and testing of assessment methods, or evidence-based reviews of helping methods focused on the health and social problems of child welfare populations.  No other type of article will be considered.

Submission Requirements. All submissions will be peer reviewed, and must be submitted in Word or WordPerfect, 12 cpi, Times New Roman type font, with one-inch margins all around, following strict APA style.  Please submit five copies of the manuscript  by 31 August 2003 to:

Barbara Thomlison, PhD,

Institute for Children & Families at Risk, School of Social Work,

University Park, ECS Room 411,

Florida International University, 11200 SW 8^th Street, Miami, Florida, 33199.

E-mail: Barbara.Thomlison@xxxxxxx

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April 15, 2003

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Hello

I've conducted website research and am finishing the development of a
tailor-izeable tool for students and other researchers to use.

These are excellent questions.

Encouraging someone to complete a survey online is much the same as
doing so in person with pencil and paper instruments.... some
researchers use small incentives, which would be harder to deliver
via web. Having done a great deal of web-based information
gathering, I can only say that by "human factoring" the pages to
reasonable lengths and by informing the participant at the beginning
and throughout, how many pages there are and how close to the
completion they are, is about all you can do.

As for preventing people from making multiple records, the web server
can gather data such as the incoming IP address and record that with
the record so as to detect possible multiple submissions from the
same computer.

Feel free to contact me off-listserve for more help or technical information.

Susan Wilde, Psy.D.

>It has occurred to a colleague and myself that an organizational web site
>(in this case WWW.CCOSO.ORG) might serve as a good place to collect survey
>data consistent with the site's subject area - in this case, sex offenders.
>We could look at public attitudes about sex offenders, Magen's laws,
>Registration, etc. We could give people a little quiz and see how much
>factual information they have on which to base their attitudes about these
>subjects. Although the sampling will not necessarily be representative of a
>particular group, we might be able to get large numbers of respondents.
>
>The technology for doing such research is easily available but we also
>foresee potential problems. First, how does one encourage site visitors to
>complete a survey. Perhaps more importantly, people wanting to undermine
>the research could easily submit multiple and fraudulent surveys.
>
>We will very much appreciate responses from researchers who have perhaps
>tried this kind of thing or who have looked into it and can shed light on
>these and other potential problems and advantages of this kind of research.
>
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